As he wished, Li Chen enjoyed Artest's VIP-level defense tailored for him in the next game.

Sports Illustrated once conducted a questionnaire to ask who was the most annoying defensive player in the league, inviting a total of 190 players to participate, and asked not to vote for their own players. There is no doubt that the Spurs' Uncle Bao won the first place with an incomparable absolute advantage, getting 45% of the votes.

And the one who is ranked behind him is the one who is now standing in front of Li Chen. An eight-time NBA Defensive Team of the Year First and Second Team, as well as the 2003-04 Defensive Player of the Year winner, Artest received 15 percent of the vote in this poll, making him the second-ranked "Most Annoying Defensive Player."

There are many small actions of Uncle Bao, and there are many meaningless small actions that are Sasha, this is Li Chen's previous cognition, the latter often makes useless small actions when defending makes Li Chen, as a teammate, feel helpless, he believes that if Vujacic can put that mind on improving the three-point accuracy, it will definitely be more effective, but Sasha has been addicted to the defensive game he has built for himself.

Artest's next performance made Li Chen completely overturn his previous perception of Bowen's dirtiest, and the beast did everything he could in the defense against him, pushing his knees, pinching his thighs, and pushing his elbows, Li Chen felt that if he continued like this, he would have to collapse.

gave Kobe Bryant a look, signaling to the boss that if he didn't make any more moves, he would have to kneel.

Li Chen's eyes begging for mercy made Kobe Bryant very happy, and he had long wanted to teach this rookie a lesson, but it seemed that he couldn't grasp the other party's handle, even if he had a lazy attitude, but this guy always restrained all kinds of behaviors within the acceptable range stipulated by the team, even if the old monk wanted to reprimand him, he couldn't find a suitable reason.

Now that I see this nasty little rookie finally being taught a lesson, this makes the boss feel much more comfortable looking at Artest, who has always been unpleasant, considering Li Chen's ironclad departure next season, Kobe Bryant is wondering if he wants to urge the team to sign Artest, whose contract is about to expire, to fill the vacancy left by Li Chen's departure to the Lakers.

Although the Beast's offense is average, in comparison, the Lakers' current offensive strength is strong enough, and what they need more is a player with strong defense, of course, if there is a beautiful three-point hand, Artest is a more suitable candidate in Kobe's opinion.

But now it's a bit far to think about these things, the top priority is to save this little rookie, otherwise Kobe Bryant doesn't dare to guarantee whether Li Chen will break the jar and make jokes about the team's record, and gradually understand Li Chen's personality He knows that this rookie is not easy to bully, and his professional attitude is not a bad thing to describe, which annoys him and he can really do anything.

And when you think about it, the boss thinks it's a bit out of place to always wishfully impose the demands he has set on others, after all, there are few people who can see basketball as their life and victory as the only requirement like him.

Most professional players in the NBA still just treat basketball as a profession, and they often pursue honor just to be famous, get big contracts, find advertisers, make a lot of money, and real reputation is only secondary.

The boss has a clear advantage in the confrontation with Maddie, and now there is a big gap in strength between the two who were evenly matched, even if Maddie's dry pulling posture is still so standard, but fans can no longer find the kind of madness that they had at the beginning, the hit rate of this move is not too high, not to mention that the current situation of Maddie is not the best, and striking iron is inevitable.

Offensive problems can be forgiven in the eyes of fans, after all, it can be attributed to the idol's bad hand, they will say that even if you are a god of science and technology, there are times when you shoot 6 of 28, not to mention that my family is injured wheat.

What really saddened the fans was No. 1's lack of focus as before, probably due to the fact that Maddy, who started as a defensive player with the Raptors in the early years, had done too much dirty work, and he was tired of it, and he could no longer find the meticulous defensive attitude he had after leaving the Raptors.

He prefers to blow up others on offense, and even though his offensive strength is not as good as before, he is still the same Maddie.

Bryant scored the ball with a trademark step-back jumper, like Maddie's pull-up, the step-back jumper is the signature trick of the gods, and after Jordan, the league has not found anyone better than Kobe Bryant on the step-back jumper.

Bryant, who has now perfected this trick, certainly won't disappoint his supporters when facing a not-so-tough defense, and Maddie's outstretched ape arm can't stop the basketball from going into the frame.

"Rookie, run, like the last game, I'll step up my attack, and I'll have to hold on until Artest notices me!"

After the goal, the god reminded the younger brother to hold on for a while, he believed that as long as he continued to score singles, Artest would definitely turn his head against him, after all, strangling a Li Chen but letting Kobe Bryant score is not a good thing for the Rockets, you must know that the latter is the main scoring point of the Lakers.

"Roger!" Li Chen snapped his fingers and began to run tirelessly, recently his physical strength has made some progress, with unremitting exercise, the original physical strength of only 74 points has now risen to 76 points, and the endurance has followed, from 72 to 73.

Although the improvement of the two statistics is not much, it is enough for Li Chen to make some meaningless runs, after all, the old monk has never changed his playing schedule.

On the one hand, Li Chen has enough physical strength to support his performance in his nearly 30 minutes of playing time, and on the other hand, the team's substitutes also have more training time, and from the team's point of view, this arrangement obviously has more advantages than disadvantages.

Li Chen, who ran with his feet open, made Artest's defense fall short, it seemed that the opponent was not going to catch the ball, but he ran aimlessly and couldn't help but follow, Li Chen's half-court shooting without dead ends was already well known in the league.

Artest didn't dare to let Li Chen go, if he was a little lax and let the other party get any chance to make a move, it would be his loss, Li Chen's 80% hit rate was not dry. The beast could only hope that his opponent would stop running sooner due to lack of physical strength, and he would not look down on the rookie on the other side compared to his physical strength.

However, Artest's idea of competing for physical strength was quickly shattered by Kobe's continuous offense, and Adelman asked the Beast and Maddy to switch defensive positions, and if they didn't find a way to contain Kobe Bryant's scoring, the Rockets would likely end in failure.

Adelman, who has been criticized by the media, certainly doesn't want such a result, and he also wants to use the Rockets' good lineup this season to attack a championship.

The teammate's poor defense and the snickering of the rookie on the opposite side made the beast depressed, "It's really a fight that can't be helped"! Although there is no such proverb in the United States, it probably means so.

At the beginning of the season, Artay was also very happy to join the Rockets, who had two All-Stars and a bunch of good role players that made the Beast think that his long-cherished dream was finally coming true, but after joining, he realized that the team was far from as good as he imagined.

There are two major injury concerns at the core of the team, one of which seems to have irreconcilable contradictions with the management, and Adelman's tough rule has also made the other players in the team tremble.

Thinking about it this way, the Beast felt that this season might be wasted again, he really didn't want to stay in this hopeless team, the Beast didn't think he had so much time to play with No. 1 in the game of injuries and comebacks, especially the latter's increasingly criticized professional attitude, Artest wanted to get out of this place sooner.

Because of the wavering in his heart, even his originally strong defense did not exert the corresponding power in the face of Kobe, which disappointed Adelman, who had high hopes for his disciple, Kobe Bryant scored continuously, and the Rockets couldn't find a way to stop it, and the point difference was soon widened by the Lakers, and the Rockets were in a predicament.

At the critical moment, Yao Ming stepped forward, first hit a small hook under the basket, and then covered Kobe's seemingly unstoppable layup very thrillingly, and the little giant temporarily stabilized the situation.

Then, Da Yao scored one after another in the next offense, leading the Rockets to keep chasing, and finally narrowed the gap to two points at the end of the first quarter, and the two teams entered the second quarter 24-26.

"Hey, the good performance in front fell short because of Yao Ming's sudden outburst! We have to start all over again! ”

Lao Yu sighed unnaturally, originally he thought that this game would be like this, and if the Rockets couldn't find a way to contain Kobe, they would definitely lose, but Yao Ming's sudden rise made the two teams stand on the same running line again.

"Seriously, don't you think this kind of game is more interesting, just like playing Mavericks, I think it's the coolest game we played!" Li Chen said beside Lao Yu that he didn't care about the team's record, he just wanted to mix a championship and improve his personal data by the way.

"Lee, stop showing off your lore, we all know that." Odom revealed Li Chen's sinister intentions, "But it's pretty cool to be honest", and it seems that he also supports Li Chen's point of view.

"But, you have to know, we are all a group of old people, unlike you are only 19 years old, in our opinion, the game can still be easy and easy, the game against the Mavericks has too much impact on physical reserves, if there are too many games of that kind in the regular season, many old guys in the team will not be able to bear it, and this will also affect our playoff performance, you have to know that the Lakers' goal is never to be in the regular season, this is the tradition of the Purple and Gold!"

As a rookie who has been in the league for many years, Odom has deduced so much from just one sentence from the old fish.

It's just that the reaction of the person concerned is not so cooperative, "Well, Lamar, it's not as serious as you said, I'm just afraid that if I'm too tired, it will delay my activity plan tomorrow, as for the playoffs, man, I haven't played the All-Star yet!" ”

Lao Yu's words embarrassed Odom, and the Grand Lama finally found an opportunity to show off his experience over the years with Li Chen, a rookie, but he didn't expect Lao Yu to point out his loopholes mercilessly.

"Huh"! Li Chen's disdainful gaze made Odom smile unnaturally.

"Okay, stop playing, play the second quarter well, still play like that, Cruze strengthens the running position and involves the opponent's defense, as long as the opponent can't limit Kobe, we have a big chance of winning!"

The old monk interrupted the small talk of several people, Li Chen's addition made the atmosphere of the team more and more active, although he felt that this change was good, but the same change also brought him a certain amount of discomfort in managing the team, and the ban was what he wanted to see, but it was too cold-blooded, and it was not good for the psychology of the players.

"Come on, Sasha, blow up that Artest on the other side, I think he's very upset!" Because of the normal rotation, Li Chen sat on the bench, but this did not prevent him from thinking of trying to seize every opportunity to try to make Artest unhappy.

"No problem, although Artest is very strong, but I'm not bad anyway, not to mention that he has been playing for a lot of time, and his physical strength is definitely not enough, I will let him enjoy my small movements, I want him to know who is the king of small actions!"

Sasha's words were not ashamed, which made Li Chen, who had some confidence in him, instantly discouraged, "Can you stop your senseless little actions and play the game well?" It's time for your boring defensive game to stop, haven't you noticed the old guy's weird look after every little gesture you make? ”

Li Chen wanted to say this to his little brother, but it was obvious that the stubborn Sasha would only think that the boss was jealous of his defensive talent.

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